Yeni Akit

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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 25

September 27, 2016 10:11 AM ET

Reporter arraigned on terrorism charges for having app on phone A court in the southern Turkish city of Isparta on September 24 arraigned Ramazan Alkan, a reporter for the pro-government, Islamist daily Yeni Akit on terrorism charges for having...

Two newspaper offices firebombed in Istanbul

February 11, 2016 11:12 AM ET

New York, February 11, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's attacks on the Istanbul offices of the daily newspapers Yeni Akit and Yeni Şafak. The newspapers are generally supportive of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)....

Conflating critics with terrorists in Turkey

January 31, 2013 1:39 PM ET

The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is quick to brand critics as "terrorists," and that's one of the main reasons that Turkey was the world's worst jailer of the press when CPJ conducted its recent census of...

Turkish journalist attacked amid smear campaign on press

December 26, 2012 3:29 PM ET

Istanbul, December 26, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack on December 16 on Rohat Emekçi, a news anchor and producer with the pro-Kurdish Gün Radio station in Diyarbakir province, in southeast Turkey....